Here are the statistics for the use of network information servers for
May 1994. This includes World-Wide Web (www.uky.edu), Gopher
(gopher.uky.edu), Qi/Ph Directory (ukcc.uky.edu), and CMS View. CMS
View is available only to CMS users - either using their own userid or by
logging on to one of the anonymous View userids. The other services are
available to workstations with campus ethernet access or terminals on
multi-user systems with appropriate software. Most of these services are
available world-wide over the Internet.
Web clients (like Mosaic) can use all of these services, Gopher
clients can use all but the Web services, and Ph and Eudora clients
can use Qi/Ph services. (We distribute versions of most of these for
Macintosh, Windows, and some Unix platforms.) Tracking Mosaic use is
the most complex because of the number of protocols it supports. A
document on the Web server can refer the client to another Web
document, a Gopher item, or Qi/Ph search without the Mosaic user's
awareness.
The transaction counts are counts of Gopher and View menu picks - when
someone picks an item from a View or Gopher menu that is one transaction.
A transaction could lead to a document, a search, or another menu. Web
transactions are for documents and searches. What the Mosaic user sees
as a single document might involve multiple server accesses. Qi/Ph
transactions are searches and requests for additional information.
There was a slight decrease in traffic in May for most services,
probably because of the end of the semester. Web traffic continues
to increase though.
Gopher (gopher.uky.edu):
72,212 total transactions, down 4%
20,099 from CMS users (ukcc.uky.edu), no change
9,481 UK campus network workstations, down 20%
42,632 from the Internet, down 3%
World-Wide Web (www.uky.edu):
51,550 total transactions, up 22%
107 from CMS users (ukcc.uky.edu) - experimental
25,339 UK campus network workstations, up 6%
26,104 from the Internet, up 43%
Qi/Ph Directory (ukcc.uky.edu):
10,902 total transactions, down 43%
1,546 from CMS users (ukcc.uky.edu), down 40%
970 UK campus network workstations, down 40%
8,386 from the Internet, down 44%
View (ukcc.uky.edu only):
77,470 total transactions, down 20%
5,087 from anonymous View ids, down 8%
The servers are used 24 hours each day from all over the world, but most
use is from 8:00 am until 8:00 pm, with a concentration from 1:00 pm
until 5:00 pm Eastern Time.
The Hit Parade
These were the most used items on the Gopher and View services. (Some
of this activity is from Web clients.) These figures are total trans-
actions with a daily average.
Approx. Avg.
Gopher View Total Daily
1. Netnews 4,726 5,071 9,797 316.0
2. Weather 3,661 3,928 7,589 244.8
3. Campus Directory* 2,617 2,808 5,425 175.0
4. Grants 2,500 2,683 5,183 167.2
5. Jobs 1,682 1,805 3,487 112.5
6. Classes&Registrar 1,439 1,544 2,983 96.2
7. Library 775 832 1,607 51.8
8. Reference 723 776 1,499 48.3
9. CommunityCollege 653 701 1,354 43.7
10. Announcements 516 554 1,070 34.5
11. Computing 397 426 823 26.5
12. Manuals 319 342 661 21.3
13. DailyDigest 184 197 381 12.3
14. Lexcampus 160 172 332 10.7
15. HRS 149 160 309 10.0
* These campus directory accesses do not count access through the Ph/Qi
server. The activity of the WHOIS server isn't counted.
These were the most popular items on the Web server. Web client access
to the Gopher server are counted above.
1. ArtSource 9,367
3. Kentucky Atlas 6,096
4. Campus Guide 5,667
5. FACTS 2,445
6. Weather 1,662
7. A&S 862
8. MC FACTS 654
9. UKCC Staff 553
10. Gaines 85
The Gopher and Qi/Ph services are running on the IBM 3090 and the Web
service is running on the Convex Metasystem.